It says bring a bath towel to class--is that a body towel you'd dry with or a hand towel?

I took two kitchen towels with me.

hope this helps you.

A big towel. The idea is that you can lay that over your work area then when class is over you can roll up your mess and take it home. I always tell my students this is an optional thing, and they don't have to do it.

Now a hand towel would come in handy during class as well.

A bath size towel. It is used to place underneath your work area to keep the table clean. We didn't use it as the teacher put down a plastic table cloth.

hi.....when I took the class, we took a regular body towel. You put it on the desk and work off of it. Easier to clean up your mess that way. I loved the classes and learned so much. Good Luck !!!

They just want you to have a large towel to cover your work area for easy clean up. At my Michaels we use the big rolls of paper to cover the whole tables instead.

Kelly

When I took course 1 I took a wet kitchen cloth in a baggy along to clean off my equipment, practice board, hands etc. Just a thought!!

My instructor told me that is used to cover the table. But she used brown paper to cover the table--at Michaels. You can bring a kitchen towel and put it in a baggy to wipe you hands off or keep your tips covered. I just brought a few dry & wet paper towels. This way I could throw out or wrap my bags up for the trip home.

We had brown paper on the table too...I will bring both with me if I go.

We use a small bath towel because we have a small room. My students use it to define their area and keep track of their supplies.

Define their area.... I like that, Mslou! My cake space! Mine!

At my class last Monday night I finally asked the instructor why in the world we needed to bring a bath sized towel...I'd brought mine every week and we'd never used it!? lol She didn't have a clue because it wasn't something she included on her supply list for us...didn't even realize it was listed in the course book for each class...lol. We finally figured out what it was meant for (to cover your work surface for easy clean-up) but then laughed about it because the tables were covered with paper. I usually take 2 kitchen towels to use for clean up...there's a sink in the classroom, so I can wet the rag when I get there, then I keep the other one dry and use it to dry off my tools, couplers, etc after I rinse them between uses/colors or whatever. Though they have a sink in there, and even a soap dispenser, there's NEVER been any soap IN the dispenser, even though we've requested it from the Michael's employees every week! So next Monday I'm taking some dish soap with me...makes washing your hands and rinsing out your tips and couplers (when changing colors or something) a lot easier.

There seems to be alot of stuff you have to bring to class. I don't know how I am going to pack it all. Do you need everything listed under what to bring for class 2 or 3 or whatever? Some tips and whatnot are not in the student kit and I don't want to buy what I don't need. For instance, I didn't buy tip 2010 because I don't want to do a star cake.

Texas Sugar, that is what I was planning on bringing--WetOnes or baby wipes. We are not allowed to use the sink at all. She said the bathroom sink--ew--if we bring soap.

LOL, some years ago when I was a noob instructor, I attended a 2-day Wilton teaching seminar, where the teach the teachers how to teach courses 1, 2, and 3. They told us the towels were for our students to "mark their territory" so their neighbors wouldn't be elbowing into their space.

Luckily, my store has a large classroom and my students spread out over several tables so space is never an issue. I cover the tables with those wide rolls of plastic table cover so at the end of class I can roll it all up and chunk it. We don't have the rolls of brown craft paper.

Thank you Texas Sugar. Let me get my booklet for any questions, I appreciate that. I did buy tip #1 because I thought I would use it anyway and I already had an 8" and 13" spatula already. I bought the "tackle box" caddy, which I think covers courses 1 and 2 (correct me if I am wrong). I already looked ahead a little to some of the future courses and briefly to the student kits. I have fondant already and also the piping gel.

I hate to miss class.